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and in 10 years, they've never bettered windows 2000 (in my opinion anyway). most stable, fastest version of windows i've ever used anyway

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7 is very good imo, but has some flaws. The biggest one for me is that it does start to bog down quicker than XP (I never had Vista, so I can't compare). The only other ones are the boot times are slooooooooooow and it's still using MS-DOS.

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harjinator
and in 10 years, they've never bettered windows 2000 (in my opinion anyway). most stable, fastest version of windows i've ever used anyway

I won't agree that they haven't bettered it (personally I preferred it to XP, in terms of the stripped-down nature of it, but technically Vista and 7 are way ahead of it), but it's certainly got all the foundations we use today. It was without doubt the most important release of Windows we have so far seen. It's reputation was probably enhanced by Windows ME, but still.

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msater
and it's still using MS-DOS.

In what way? :\



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/14/2010 10:00PM by gav.

That was an awesomely fun read. XP's been ace. Still using it after nearly 9 years, it simple cleaner and if treated carefully doesn't bog down. I think that it was Win98Se that did the slap bang reputation awesomeness of Microsoft.

Monza972 Wrote:
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> That was an awesomely fun read. XP's been ace.
> Still using it after nearly 9 years, it simple
> cleaner and if treated carefully doesn't bog down.
> I think that it was Win98Se that did the slap bang
> reputation awesomeness of Microsoft.

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gav Wrote:
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> > and in 10 years, they've never bettered windows
> 2000 (in my opinion anyway). most stable, fastest
> version of windows i've ever used anyway
>
>
> I won't agree that they haven't bettered it
> (personally I preferred it to XP, in terms of the
> stripped-down nature of it, but technically Vista
> and 7 are way ahead of it), but it's certainly got
> all the foundations we use today. It was without
> doubt the most important release of Windows we
> have so far seen. It's reputation was probably
> enhanced by Windows ME, but still.
>
>
> and it's still using MS-DOS.
>
>
> In what way? :\


Isn't the basic operating system underneath still MS DOS?

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MS-DOS hasn't been the foundation of anything NT-based. It was last seen dying a very painful death in Windows ME. XP, Vista and Windows 7 are all NT based and the only DOS you see is a command line prompt that doesn't run DOS programs.

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turkey_machine Wrote:
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> MS-DOS hasn't been the foundation of anything
> NT-based. It was last seen dying a very painful
> death in Windows ME. XP, Vista and Windows 7 are
> all NT based and the only DOS you see is a command
> line prompt that doesn't run DOS programs.

Ah, OK. Thanks Jethro. Shows how little I know about Operating Systems :P

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Vader Wrote:
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> Monza972 Wrote:
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> > That was an awesomely fun read. XP's been ace.
> > Still using it after nearly 9 years, it simple
> > cleaner and if treated carefully doesn't bog
> down.
> > I think that it was Win98Se that did the slap
> bang
> > reputation awesomeness of Microsoft.
>
>



And that ofcourse